Robert L. “Bob” Williams, a 68 year old resident of Lake Viking, MO, passed away at 5:25 p.m., Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at his residence where he was under hospice care.

Funeral services are scheduled for 1:00 p.m., Friday, June 8, 2012 at the Edinburg Baptist Church in Edinburg, MO.  Burial will be in the Resthaven Memorial Gardens of Trenton.  A visitation is scheduled from 7 until 8 Thursday evening at Resthaven Mortuary of Trenton.  Memorial donations are suggested to the Barton Campus and may be left or mailed to the funeral home.

Robert L. Williams was born March 26, 1944 in Trenton, MO to John Robert and Anna Virginia Hamilton Williams.  He graduated from Trenton High School and then Trenton Junior College in 1963.  He later received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri in Agricultural Economics and a Master’s degree from the University of Nebraska in Secondary School Administration.  Robert served in the United States Army from 1966 through 1968 with the first of the first calvary in Vietnam.  Robert had worked as a teacher at South Omaha High School and worked for Farmers National before starting his own farm management and insurance company named Ag Business Associates in Atlantic, IA in 1992.  He retired from the business in 2005. On September 19, 1998 he was united in marriage to Jennifer Snidow.  His memberships included the Edinburg Baptist Church, a life member of the V.F.W., the National Rifle Association, University of Missouri Alumni Association, and he had been a past member of the L.I.O.N.S. Club and the Optimist Club in Iowa.

Surviving relatives include his wife Jennifer of the home, four daughters Wendy Williams of St. Joseph, MO, Lisa Roberson and her husband Kenneth of Coldwater, MS, Jennifer Partlow and her husband Brock of Avoca, IA and Antionette “Toni” Williams of St. Joseph, two step children Paige Baker Lund and her husband David of Hamilton, MO, and Chad Baker and his wife Kristie of Edgewater, MD, a sister Deanna Trump and her husband Jerry of Trenton, a brother Rex Williams and his wife Arlene of Sioux City, IA, 11 grandchildren Jay, Jessica, Cheyenne, Peyton, Graycen, Etta, Trevor, Trey Tessa, Maison and Kaitlyn and two great grandchildren Keaton and Gabriel.

Those preceding him in death include his parents and an infant brother Lionel Gary Williams.